Desert Dweller

-thoughts on life, death and gardening.

Divine Nature

Everything living and nonliving
is speaking, shouting, singing
if you know how to listen.

Nature is the gods’
second set of scripture,
all of existence,
good and evil, pure and impure,
is the language of the gods.

Spirit and nature drink to one another,
sing and dance together,
and tell one another abstruse
and comforting miracle tales.

Take delight in creatures and things;
all are the writings of the gods,
their signatures visible to those who learn to see.

The teeming multiplicity
of each leaf and toenail,
specific in form and function
exist in relation to all others.

Unity of the gods balanced
by negativity and evil
is divinity wrestling with itself.

Each sound, voice, and speech
is manifesting and declaring spirit,
assuming form in Nature herself.

Do not rebel against your desires,
seize them and bind them,
do not stifle your surging powers,
let them work at holy work,
and rest a holy rest.

Your own character, qualities
which make you what you are, constitute
your own special approach to the divine.

Reality does not end
at the edge of eternity.
If only we will pay attention,
distressing worldly contradictions
are there to allow discovery of
their intrinsic significance.

In each nook and cranny,
in every flash of light,
in every shadow,
every god’s intent is clearly written
beyond the bounds of earthly existence.

Every profane act is rendered sacred
by the manner in which it is performed.
To discover the mystical,
we need go no further
than the most ordinary
of our ordinary experiences.

© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 293/365.

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